Barry Alford, the author of Freirean Voices, Student Choices is an English professor at Mid Michigan Community College. In this specific piece of writing, he states that “particularly when they find themselves following some formula organizing the topic instead of the trail of their own thinking” (P. 280). Meaning that students just do exactly what they are told to do instead of venturing out and making it their own writing. Alford talks about how students need to have more in depth and creative forms of writing rather than being boring. A major thing he believes is that students need to hear themselves and their other classmates before they start writing.
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
He changes up his style of writing to keep the reader entertained and also gave them a view of a student’s perspective in
”― Patrick Rothfuss. There is power in words, power in the way they can bring new ideas and opinions to the people who perceive them. The people who understand this the most, are the people who use them to weave stories for their audience. It stands to reason that these practitioners might draw from each other, as a student who cannot help but to glance over at another student's work with the purpose of improvement.
The piece of writing which I felt was unsuccessful for me was the Rhetorical Analysis of an article relating to a topic from our course book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. This piece of writing was difficult for me to organize my ideas around. The article that I decided to use for my rhetorical analysis highlighted mass incarceration among African American and the effect of civil liberties being are taken away from these individuals. I had a lot of repetition because many of the examples I used demonstrated more than one type of appeal. I found myself repeating what the purpose of the example was and how it demonstrated proper use of ethos, pathos, and logos.
Objectivity is an area in which all news reporters find difficulty. While newspaper articles are meant to be objective in nature as reporters are meant to simply report the news with facts as their basis, Editorials and the like are free to be subjective nature basing the stance one takes on a topic purely due to one's opinion or how one feels about the topic. This struggle is always present as one can see with the recent presidential candidate, Donald Trump. In the article by the Huffington Post which is titled "Donald Trump Has Already Won", the author, William Harwood, writes about the question that many Americans have asked themselves about this upcoming presidential election, "Has Donald Trump already won the election?"
The article by Donald Murray entitled, “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts” provides readers a better understanding of the writing process and argues that writers learn to write, by writing and rewriting. Murray also contends that writers must learn to be their own best enemy. Well, I believe I have this trait covered! I will confess, that I purposely saved this course for last, due to the number of years between my last structured learning experience and returning to school to complete a BSN degree.
The person that I'm interviewing is my dad, Lemarr Cook, because I felt like he had an inserting life, and agreed to let me interview him. Lemarr's life started in Baker City, Organ, October 6, 1972. The important events happening on the year he was born was the end of the Vietnam War, The Terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics, and the Watergate. Lemarr lived with his family, and his family was middle to low in come. He got married, one adult and three kids, which on is Lemarr.
This grants more creative freedom for the writer, while also instilling the different template methods through practice. In spite of the logical advantages that the templates give the writer, some people are still skeptical of this type of method. Many believe that these templates are a juvenile form that inhabits creativity. One student even proclaims, “I’m in college now, this is third-grade-level stuff.” (10) Regardless of these students claims that templates are too simplistic and less imaginative, Graff and Birkensteins’ idea that one must learn through template forms in order to enhance their skills in the future should be endorsed.
Together, these techniques can be used to recontextualize a text by forcing the audience to form new perspectives and
As I was reading Melissa Duffy’s “Inspiration, and Craig Vetter’s “Bonehead Writing,” I found myself connecting with Vetter’s paper more than Duffy’s. I found that the presentation in “Bonehead Writing” to capture my attention, and that Vetter’s feelings about writing was similar to my opinion on writing. Through his wording and humor, I think Craig Vetter wrote the best essay. I find that the wording and presentation of an article or essay influences my opinion of the writer, and it affects how I receive the idea they are trying to present to me. Craig Vetter uses a blunt approach to convey his idea that writing is nearly impossible to teach, and describes writing as “A blood sport, a walk in the garden of agony every time out.”
Leonardo DA Vinci once said “Learning never exhausts the mind.”, one way of saying that we are able to always learn something even though we already have a clear idea about the same thing. This week, classes have been a way of responding indirectly to this previous quotation. From our pass classes, I improve my understanding on the “They Say/ I say” sample, enhancement that actually my ethos of growth as a writer. Now I have an improved outlook on the “They Say / I say” concept.
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In my sixth period I have grown more aware of how to use my rhetorical devices specifically figurative language. During our class a little while ago we were learning how to mimic a poem and the figurative language I used was Alliteration, similes and metaphors. Mimicking a poem drew me closer to use these devices because we had to make a poem that had all the same basic devices. I could probably teach a decent class on how to use alliteration for poems or any other type of writing and I really like to write poems so I would be able to explain how to make a poem using alliteration. I love to read about new things and when I read about a specific topic I start to memorize the things being talked about and I like to share the information I learn
From past to present, there has been a wide array of arguments about the implicit and explicit knowledge from many aspects of language related fields. The three different articles from various perspectives will be examined and responded briefly by focusing on their points about two knowledge systems. Before getting into details, it should be declared that it is common idea that whereas the declarative knowledge, explicit one, is related with the question of knowing what, occur without awareness, and necessities the ability of verbalizing; procedural knowledge, implicit one, has features of knowing how, having intuition and the ability of using the knowledge. Initially, the article of, Automatization, Skill Acquisition, and Practice in Second Language Acquisition, by Robert Dekeyser and Raquel Criado mainly focus on the systematic practice by getting into details about explicit and implicit knowledge, the process of automatization and showing how all these elements are associated in each other.
